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Apple Silicon native ML framework for efficient training and inference on Mac hardware with NumPy-like API.

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Free / Open Source

Founded

2023

Team size

10,000+ employees

Headquarters

Cupertino, CA

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NumPyPyTorchJAXArrayFire

About MLX

MLX is Apple's open-source array and machine-learning framework built to exploit the unified-memory architecture of Apple-silicon (M-series) chips. It offers a NumPy-like Python API plus C++, C and Swift bindings, with composable function transforms for autodiff, vectorization and lazy graph optimization. It targets ML researchers and developers training or running models locally on Macs.

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